May 2011
Beginner
492 pages
14h 16m
English
The atoms of a solid have only vibrational degrees of freedom. The gas molecules can have three types of motion—translational, rational and vibrational. Hence, the total energy of atoms of a mass M is
where UT, UR and UV are the energies associated with translational, rotational and vibrational degrees of freedom, respectively.
With each degree of freedom of translational motion, an amount of energy 1/2 kT is associated. Hence if N be the number of molecule per gm-molecule, then the energy per gm-molecule due to translational motion is
Since the centre of gravity of the molecule can have only three degrees of ...
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